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Letter: Study the history of Marxism and socialism

Posted June 19, 2023 1:00 am

I got a laugh out of Mary Ann Curtis's letter of June 14, as I'm sure most of your readers did as well. She is railing against the Awake America movement, a group dedicated to the promotion of traditional family values and common sense. She also notes she is a "Marxist feminist," and has been distributing the Freedom Socialist (an oxymoron) newspaper for 50 years. Maybe she's unaware, but Marxism and socialist movements have universally failed wherever they have been implemented - with the exceptions of North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. While I'll always defend her right to have her own opinions, maybe she should spend an hour studying the histories of Marxism and socialism to see how they worked out. If she's still a fan, maybe a move to one of those other socialist countries would fulfill her dreams.

John Gibson

St. Charles

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